Method and System for Determining Compatibility of Computer Systems

Abstract

Compatibility and consolidation analyses can be performed on a collection of systems to evaluate the 1-to-1 compatibility of every source-target pair, evaluate the multi-dimensional compatibility of specific transfer sets, and to determine the best consolidation solution based on various constraints including the compatibility scores of the transfer sets. The analyses can be done together or be performed independently. These analyses are based on collected system data related to their technical configuration, business factors and workloads. Differential rule sets and workload compatibility algorithms are used to evaluate the compatibility of systems. The technical configuration, business and workload related compatibility results are combined to create an overall compatibility assessment. These results are visually represented using color coded scorecard maps

1 . A system for determining placement of source computer systems on target computer systems, the system configured to execute operations causing the system to:
 collect data for a collection of computer systems, the collection of computer systems comprising a plurality of source systems and a plurality of target systems;   determine a placement of at least one source system from the collection of computer systems on at least one target system from the collection of computer systems by employing the following operations:
 evaluate compatibility between a specific source system from the plurality of source systems and a specific target system from the plurality of target systems by evaluating one or more rules that operate against attributes or data relating to the source and target systems being evaluated; 
 evaluate compatibility between the specific source system from the plurality of source systems and one or more other source systems either already placed on the specific target system, or being evaluated for placement onto the specific target system, to determine if the specific source system can be placed with those other source systems on the specific target system, by evaluating one or more rules that operate against attributes or data relating to the source systems; 
 evaluate compatibility between the specific source system and the specific target system by evaluating the impact on resource utilization of the specific target system of placing the specific source system on the specific target system, in combination with the one or more other source systems, either already placed on the specific target system, or being evaluated for placement onto the specific target system; and 
   issue instructions to place the at least one source system on the at least one target system in accordance with the determined placement.